A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
Language is memory and metaphor.
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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